Word: gulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile "The Harmony Twins" Lieut. Wilfred J. Paul and Sergeant John Bishop-let the drag ropes of Army No. 2 down within grasp of two farm boys near Gull Lake long enough to get directions to Regina. On they sailed for another eight hours, finally being beaten down by rain at the end of 29 hr. near Hatton, Sask. about 1,000 mi. northwest of Omaha. Surely a record for bags of 35,000 cu. ft., their distance possibly beat the U. S. record of 1,072 mi. for balloons of any size...
...Ivar Kreuger gull austere and powerful U. S. bankers? Will any of these bankers who sold his securities and sat on his boards be tried for fraud or negligence...
...east wing of Peabody Museum, where it was felt that the alligator might turn up. In respect to Arthur the Seagull, police of Sandwich, Massachusetts, are keeping a sharp lookout for a small bird named "Minnie", sole surviving Heath Hen of the Bay State, and friend of the Harvard gull several years ago. Description of the hunted bird, which tallies somewhat with that of the Lampoon's sacred Ibis, states that Minnie is slight, grey-colored, with pale features and a closely-cropped ruff on the top of the head...
Cully, U. S. N. retired, and five of the seven Russian orphans whom he adopted and brought to the U. S. ten years ago, were rescued from Chesapeake Bay at midnight by the crew of the S. S. Verona which rammed and sank their yacht Kikachiaka ("Sea Gull''), a converted submarine-chaser. They were on their way from Annapolis to the Admiral's South Carolina home. The children with the Admiral were: three girls, Nina, 15, Ludmila, 20, Tonia, 13; and two boys, Feodor, 14, Nikolai, 22. All were quickly picked up except Nina who was found...
...taxidermy and museum work, several years ago conceived the idea of restoring a dodo in the round, as a tour de force in taxidermy (see cut). His dodo with its relatively short wings, its chunky body and its tufted tail looks like a monstrously big duckling with a gull's bill. Actually the dodo, despite its looks, was a kind of pigeon...